Update:
The fam and I took the car for a 800 mi weekend outing. All bugs are officially out. In disconnecting and reconnecting the dash the "push clutch to start" message even returned.
All software is as it should have been from the factory.
Many many thanks to all that helped!
Josh
Hi,
Glad you have successfully completed your project, I`m going to flash the c5 a6 which used to be TIP with the M-box file, so have you returned your immo back? Or how have you coded the cluster? Because when I have flashed M-box file to my S4 which was H-box I had to recode the cluser.
thanks